The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-09-17
a DENTISTS CHAT.
The Pcculiarities ~ Men and Women AZ
nietch WIN Tnoihache.


niotcd with Toothache.
This is the great profession for en-
countering peculiar people" said a
Ulion Square dentist. Not q day
passes withou, bringing patient pos
sessed Of some personal peculiarly. A
dentist becomes familiar with human
nature. He can tell persons char
acter and occupation by the way in
which he acts in the chair. An old
maid will never trust herself in the
dentists hands unless she has friend
with her. while elderly ladies insist on
sitting before mirror. so that they can
see that they are not disGgured for
life. The prettier girl is the more
confidence she has in our professional
skill. Young girls and boys and coun-
try people always want To take gas.
while the dudes consider it brave
thing to face the music without the use
of ether.
ut is a popular superstition that
dentist is rs anxious 10 become a MILL
ionaire as a plumber; so every body,
except those who never intend 10 pay,
like TO make bargain before tho
work is done. Besides bad debts We
lose money by having people refuse to
take sets after they are made. Most
of the objections raised are trivial.
Women leave them on our hands be-
cause they thought they would have
looked better in them than they do
look. Mean people get teeth drawn
free Of charge by promising to order a
set in day or two. But, after all.
the dentist gets square on the human
race in the long run.
''The queerest patient I've had in a
long time came in to-day. He was
strapping big fellow and. no doubt.
ordinarily of jovial disposition, but
the torments of the toothache had COM
plctcly soured him. He never noticed
me at all. but threw himself back in
the chair and pointing To three badly
decayed molars. said laconically: Sec
them teeth? They ache like thunder!
Pull 'cm out
"Tve never had any one die in the
chair. but | got such n scare once that
l wouldn't again leave patient with
half drawn tooth if the house was on
fire. was one day attending to an
old lady, when little boy came in.
His face was badly swollen, and he
howlcd with pain. | had just given
the old lady gas, and was waiting for
il TO take effect, so | left her in charge
of my assistant and led the suffering
boy into another room. His tooth was
hard to get at on account of the swell
ing | had just got grip on it when
the assistant rushed in and said the
old lady had fit. The boy yelled
horribly when | nipped him, but l
never gave him moments thought
in my anxiety for the old lady. When
got her around all right and returned
To the other room the boy had dis
appeared. There was nothing very
strange about this, because people often
have teeth drawn, leave an order for
set, and then never show up again
until all remembrance of pain has
gone. But when the morning papers
published an account of the body OF
boy with swollen jaw found in the
river | tainted dead away. All that
day | suffered the torments of tho
damned and expected to be charged
with murder every moment l felt
sure that h,sd hurt the boy so much
that, in his agony. he had committed
suicide. When my assistant went TO
the morgue and failed to identify tho
boy | was somewhat relieved, but
went there myself before my mind was
at rest. If it is true that murderer
is attracted to the body of his victim.
it is the very reverse with one who has
killed another accidentally. The body
was that of another boy. and the
swollen jaw was proved TO be the re-
suit of blow. ~ J. EUening San.